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Cashew Chicken Kuruma
Ingredients
chicken - 6 breast fillets Dried Chillies - 6 coriander seeds - 2 tablespoons poppy seeds - 1 tablespoon cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon ground turmeric - 1 teaspoon cashew nuts - 15 almonds - 3 roasted bengal grams - 1 tablespoon ground ginger - 1 teaspoon garlic - 4 cloves desiccated coconut - 2 cups ghee - 100 gram small onions - 5 lemon - 1 salt - to taste hot water - 1 cup
Method
Wash and clean chicken breast fillets and cut them into 3 cm square pieces. Peel and Chop onions. Combine chillies, poppy seeds, coriander, cumin, turmeic, ginger, roasted grams, almonds and 10 cashew nuts in a blender and blend them to a fine paste. Combine coconut in a bowl with one cup of warm water, stand for few minutes and then press coconut through sieve, reserve the milk in a cup. Melt ghee in a frying pan, stir in onions, crushed garlics and spice paste for 3 minutes. (you can also add a small piece of cinnamon and 2 cloves) Now add chicken pieces, fry on all sides untill brown. Chicken is almost done, then add the coconut milk and salt to taste, simmer sauce untill reduced and thickened. Add little more diluted coconut milk if the sauce is very thick. Now add the remaining cashew nuts(fried in ghee and broken into pieces) and also lemon juice. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves, serve hot. Best side dish for Chappathis, Rottis and Naans.

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